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Editor’s Note 

 
 

This is the second issue of the year 2010. In this issue we 
published, seven articles, and this time twelve authors 
from seven different countries are placed. These 
published articles are from, Slovak Republic, Spain, 
Serbia, USA, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Turkey. 
“European Integration and position of women in 
Business Enterprise Sector (BES)” has been sent from 
Slovak Republic and written by Zuzana Maliková, 

Technical University of Košice. 
The purpose of this article is to describe gender gap in a field of research and to 
investigate the changes after Slovak Republic entry to EU. The research on 
gender gap is mainly focused on business enterprise sector. 
The second paper on “Female Employment in Formal and Informal Sectors of 
the Serbian Eeconomy” sent by Mirjana Radović Marković, Isidora Beraha and 
Ana Jelača, Institute of Economic Sciences, Serbia. In their paper they mentioned 
that Serbia has a large informal sector estimated at 35 per cent of GDP in 2007, 
fuelled by a weak regulatory framework, inappropriate tax and expenditure 
policies, and weaknesses in law enforcement, including the fight against 
corruption. It remains an important challenge as it reduces the efficiency of 
economic policies. 
The third paper has been sent from Spain, written by Bojica Ana Maria, Fuentes 
Maria del Mar and Albacete Sáez Carlos, University of Granada, which is titled as 
“Public Support and Inter-firm Collaborations in Women-Owned Firms”. 
This article goes beyond the descriptive analyses of women entrepreneur’s 
networks, and advances the idea of interdependency between the different types 
of relationships they build. It emphasizes that developing ties with support 
institutions can reinforce and legitimate them in the interactions with peers 
organizations.  
The fourth paper on “Women of Heraldry” was written by LaWanna Blount, 
vice-president of American School of Genealogy, Heraldry and Documentary 
Sciences, USA. She discussed the important traditions and rules that the age of 
chivalry demanded of women in the bearing of arms and how their education 
reflected the needs of the era. She then indicated current changes about women 
and the bearing of arms. 
The fifth article of this issue is coming from Faculty of Education, Lagos State 
University by Abari and Oshun on “Enrolment, Attrition and Graduation of 



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the Girl Child in Public Junior Secondary Schools in South West Nigeria, 
1999 – 2006”. The paper deals with very interesting and important problematic of 
the girl child education in Nigeria. Applied methodology is appropriate, time 
series sufficient and the contribution leads to adequate analysis. This paper can be 
an inspiration for other similar studies in developing countries. 
The sixth paper arrived from, National University of Science and Technology, 
Zimbabwe written by Moreblessings Siziba on “Strategies on Women 
Entrepreneurship Survival: A Case Study of Women Entrepreneurs in 
Zimbabwe Between 2007-2009”. This paper gives an insight on how various 
women entrepreneurs managed to adapt to the Zimbabwean unfamiliar business 
environment during 2007-2009. These women state the different challenges that 
they faced and the strategies they used to win over and be successful. 
The seventh article is from Turkey written by Kemal Yıldırım on “Social 
Changes and Their Impact on Women in Turkey and its Membership to the 
EU”. The aim of this paper is to reflect Gender, Discrimination and Human 
Rights in Turkey. 
My sincere appreciation goes to the members of the Editorial Board and for the 
effort they put in to make the journal a success. Prof. Dr. Carl Edwin Lindgren, 
a leading international scientist in the field of education, was appointed as a 
Special Advisor to the Journal of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Education 
starting with this Issue.  
I also wish to thank the contributors of the articles and excellent work that they 
have done with hope that they continue to send their worth papers, comments and 
reactions on the issues. In addition, I would like to remind you that Journal of 
Women's Entrepreneurship and Education is published two times a year, April 
and October. 
 
 
 

 
Editor-in-Chief 
Professor Mirjana Radović-Marković, PhD